58 POLYANDRIA— POLYGYNIA. Helleborus. 



1. H. viridis. Green Hellebore. 



Stem many-flowered, leafy. Leaves digitate. Petals spread- 

 ing. 



H. viridis. Linn. Sp. PL 784. fVilld. v. 2. 1336. Fl. Br. 598. 

 E7igl. Bot. V. 3. t. 200. Curt. Lond.fasc. 6. t. 34. Houk. Scot.]76. 

 DeCand. Stjst. ?). 1 . 3 1 8. Jacq. Austr. t. 1 06. 



H,n. 1192. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 84. 



H. niger hortensis, flore viridi. Raii Syn.27\. Robert Ic. t.9. 



H. niger. Bru7if. Herb. v. 1 . 30./. Cord. Hist. 1 02, 2./. 



Helleborastrum. Ger. Em. 976./. Lob. To. 680./ 



Elleborus niger adulterinus hortensis. Fuclis. Hist. 274./ Ic. 

 155./ 



Elleborum nigrum alterum. Matih. lalgr. o6\.J. Camer. Epit. 

 941./ 



Consiligo. Turn. Herb, part 1. 164./ 



Veratnim nigrum secundum. Dod. Fempt. 335. f. 



In woods and thickets, on a chalky soil. 



In Oxfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Sussex, and other chalk countries, 

 indubitably wild, though not common. Gathered by Miss Jane 

 Baynes, near Harefield, Middlesex j about Great Marlow and 

 High Wickham, Bucks, by Mr. Jacob Rayer, and in the north- 

 west part of Norfolk, by Mr. Wm. Humphrey. 



Perennial. Jj)ril, May. 



Root fleshy, black, with numerous long stout fibres, very acrid and 

 purgative. Herbage altogether annual, of a deep but bright 

 green, smooth. Stetn erect, round, forked, 1^ foot high. Outer 

 lobes of the leaves often combined, assuming a pedate aspect, 

 but they are truly digitate. FZ. few, terminal and axillary, stalk- 

 ed, mostly solitary, drooping, green in every part. Pet. ex- 

 panded. Caps. 3 or 4, short, wrinkled. Haller reckons up all 

 the reputed virtues of Hellebore under this species j which in- 

 deed seems to be what German practitioners have substituted 

 for the true plant of the antienis, H. officinalis, Sibth, in Fl. 

 Grcec. t. 523. 



2. H. fwtidus. Stinking Hellebore. Bear's-foot, or 



Setter-wort. 



Stem many-flowered, leafy. Leaves pedate. Petals con- 



vei'ging. 

 H. foetidus. Linn. Sp. PI. 784. M'illd. v. 2. 1337. FL Br. 598. 



EngLBot.v. 9.L 613. Woodv. 1. 19. Hook. Scot. 176. DeCand. 



SysL V. 1 . 320. BulL Fr. L71. Ehrh. PL Off. 275. 

 H. n. 1 1 93. HalL Hist. v. 2. 87. 



H. niger foetidus. Bauh. Pin. 185. Robert Ic. t. 10. 

 Helleboraster maximus. Raii Syn.2']\. Ger. EvK976.f. Lob. 



Ic. 679./ 

 Elleborus niger adulterinus syhestris. Fuchs.Hist. 275 -f. Ic. 156./. 



